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bug#14447: tramp-gvfs.el and xesam.el sometime fail to load


From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: bug#14447: tramp-gvfs.el and xesam.el sometime fail to load
Date: Thu, 23 May 2013 09:35:47 -0400
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux)

>> It ought to always be possible to load lisp libraries.
> I've wrapped the call of `dbus-get-unique-name' by
> `ignore-errors'. tramp-gvfs.el returns now the user error "Package
> `tramp-gvfs' not supported", which is intended.

Not good enough: as Glenn wrote "It ought to always be possible to load
lisp libraries".  They may be loaded for all kinds of reasons that have
nothing to do with using that library.

> xesam.el is obsolete (the XESAM interface is not used anymore by search
> engines). Shouldn't we move xesam.el to "obsolete/"?

Feel free to do it (but even in obsolete/, it should be always possible
to load this library).


        Stefan





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